How did it go? Reactions of my neighbors varied. Some left at the intermission, others remarked that they thought the singing was good.
Category: Reviews
La Vestale, La Monnaie, Bruxelles
In the first half of the 19th century, Spontini’s La Vestale was a hit. Empress Josephine sponsored its premiere, Parisians heard it hundreds of times, Berlioz raved about it and Wagner conducted it.
Shattering Madama Butterfly Stockholm
An intelligent updating and outstanding performance of the title role lead to a shattering climax in Puccini’s Japanese opera
Theodora, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
Handel’s genius is central focus to the new staging of Handel’s oratorio Theodora at Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.
Bostridge Sings Handel
1985 must have been a good year for founding a musical ensemble, or festival or organisation, which would have longevity.
Tannhauser und der S‰ngerkrieg auf Wartburg
Ossia Tannhauser and James Levine with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
Pelleas and Melisande in Brooklyn
The past few years have marked a renaissance in Brooklyn’s cultural life, from food to fashion, and quite notably, opera. From BAM to Bushwick, audiences have crowded in for a taste of something different.
Arizona Opera Premieres K·lm·n’s Arizona Lady
Arizona Lady is the last operetta that Hungarian Jewish composer Emmerich K·lm·n (1882-1953) wrote. A student at the Budapest Academy of Music, he learned from the same teachers as BÈla BartÛk and Zolt·n Kod·ly. After successfully staging an operetta in Budapest, K·lm·n moved to Vienna.
The Met’s First Five Productions
The only thing that is at all radical or even noteworthy about the current Metropolitan Opera season is its imbalance: five Donizetti operas to one Wagner.
Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar at REDCAT
On October 8, 2015, Los Angeles Opera presented Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt at REDCAT, the Roy and Edna Disney Cal Arts Theater in Walt Disney Concert Hall. The opera was part of L A O’s “Off Grand Program” which features chamber works in spaces smaller than the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.